{"id":24063,"date":"2025-10-10T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/?p=24063"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:33:06","slug":"uma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/socios\/organismos_publicos_investigacion_universidades\/uma\/","title":{"rendered":"UMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of M\u00e1laga (UMA), founded in 1972, is a leading public university in Spain whose mission is to provide high-quality education, foster innovation, and contribute to the progress of society. UMA is home to more than 35,000 students and 2,600 academic staff members, offering a wide range of programs across its 18 centers, covering disciplines such as health sciences, engineering, humanities, and social sciences. The university is recognized for its commitment to research, technological development, and the internationalization of education, supported by collaborations with more than 800 institutions worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the UMA, the Office of Innovation and Technological Cooperation (UMA InnTech) acts as a dynamic hub for the management and development of innovation initiatives. This office is dedicated to fostering connections between academia, industry, and social stakeholders to ensure that cutting-edge research is translated into impactful applications. It provides a framework for interdisciplinary cooperation, promoting initiatives in key areas such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Technological Innovation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UMA InnTech facilitates the development and implementation of advanced technologies across diverse sectors, ensuring that solutions are relevant to the challenges facing communities and industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interdisciplinary Collaboration:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The office prioritizes partnerships between academia, industry, and public institutions to create innovative solutions. Its approach emphasizes the integration of diverse areas of knowledge to promote advances in science and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Capacity Building:<\/strong> UMA and UMA InnTech organize training programs, workshops, and knowledge-sharing initiatives to equip students, professionals, and educators with the skills needed for the digital age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer oculto\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large oculto\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"110\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6495 lazyload\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Verde-Caracter\u00edsticas-generales.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Verde-Caracter\u00edsticas-generales.jpg 500w, https:\/\/biovegen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Verde-Caracter\u00edsticas-generales-300x66.jpg 300w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list oculto\">\n<li><strong>ACTIVITY:<\/strong>&nbsp;Teaching, Research and Innovation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>LOCATION:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cervantes Avenue, 2. Malaga<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CONSTITUTION DATE:<\/strong> 1972.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CATEGORY:&nbsp;<\/strong>University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CONTACT:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:inntech@uma.es\">inntech@uma.es<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list oculto\">\n<li><strong>INFRASTRUCTURE:<\/strong>&nbsp;The University of Malaga has 17 faculties and schools, 2 affiliated centers, and 1 Doctoral School. These facilities house 2,694 academic staff members distributed among 330 research groups.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>STAFF:<\/strong>&nbsp;4.159.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DATA OF INTEREST: <\/strong>At the University of Malaga, the Office of Innovation and Technological Cooperation (UMA InnTech) acts as a connecting thread, through innovation initiatives, between the different Services and Centers of the university and the entities of the socioeconomic fabric.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer oculto\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large oculto\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"109\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6496 lazyload\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Verde-Actividades-intereses-ID.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Verde-Actividades-intereses-ID.jpg 514w, https:\/\/biovegen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Verde-Actividades-intereses-ID-300x64.jpg 300w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"oculto\"><strong>TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPLY\/DEMAND:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"oculto\">The University of Malaga&#039;s Technological Offering brings together the lines of research, knowledge, and services that its Research Groups provide to society. Through this offering, the UMA demonstrates its ability to effectively respond to the needs of the productive and socioeconomic sectors, offering solutions in the areas of research, development, and innovation, as well as scientific and technical advice and specialized training, with the aim of promoting the generation and dissemination of knowledge, contributing to the resolution of the main challenges posed by today&#039;s society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"oculto\">Likewise, the University of Malaga seeks to strengthen cooperation with public and private institutions, promoting the creation of synergies between university research groups and companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"oculto\">The UMA provides the socioeconomic fabric with a wide variety of technologies and knowledge organized into the following strategic sectors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"oculto\">Agriculture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"oculto\">Biotechnology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"oculto\">Health Sciences and Technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"oculto\">Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"oculto\">Humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"oculto\">Natural Resources and Environment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"oculto\">Social, Economic and Legal Sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"oculto\">Production Technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"oculto\">Information and Communication Technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Malaga<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,337,4,14,277,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andalucia","category-centros-investigacion","category-organismos_publicos_investigacion_universidades","category-socios","category-localizacion","category-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25254,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions\/25254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}